I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.

I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars - and, of course, the planets.